I'm breaking the usual protocol of just emailing one or the other of you, in the hope that this will get through for Sunday's show. If not, Thursday is fine!
If you can please mention this on the show:
Chef Rob McCue (who John may remember from the NYC meetup last April) has opened his restaurant, The Fat Monk, in Manhattan! All No Agenda Producers are welcome! I've gone twice so far and it's top notch on all levels, fabulous food, gorgeous room, and excellent service. It's on Columbus Avenue between 106th and 107th Streets, right in my neighborhood. Hoping to organize regular meetups there!
Thank you both so much, you rule!!
All the best & *hugs*,
Dame Tanya, Viscountess of NYC
Meetup
Victoria B.C. Meetup - Saturday March 11 - eepurl.com/cCHRmH
Organized by Sir Stephen Woollard. RSVP: sgwoollard@hotmail.com
Email already sent out to BC area producers.
#rainstick
Bad weather causes flooding, disrupts air show | Radio New Zealand News
Downpours in parts of the North Island have caused flooding and disrupted the Wings over Wairarapa air show.
In Kawerau, Bay of Plenty, torrential rain started about 3am, flooding half a dozen homes.
Houses in Kawerau were flooded in this morning's downpour.Photo: Google Maps
Areas near River Road, Onslow Street, Beattie Road and the top of Valley Road were most affected.
Kawerau district mayor Malcom Campbell said drains struggled with the deluge, and some basements were flooded.
Mr Campbell said water in the middle of the town had subsided but some roads were still flooded and he urged motorists to drive slowly.
The Fire Service had two crews out, pumping water from basements.
Air show disruptedToday's air show at the Wings over Wairarapa festival has been cancelled and organisers are still deciding about tonight's events.
Planes at the festival in 2015 (file).Photo: RNZ / Kim Griggs
The annual air festival is held at Hood Aerodrome in Masterton and draws thousands of spectators - many from outside the region.
Event manager Jenny Gasson said her team was bitterly disappointed.
"Unfortunately the weather has played a significant role today and we are all devastated the air show is not on.
"We are in the process of contacting all corporate ticket holders and sponsors and communicating the news with all our ticket holders," she said.
"We will make a decision later today about tonight's scheduled evening show. We are all now hoping the weather improves ahead of tomorrow so that we can put on a terrific air show."
Trump Transition
It's a bloodbath at the State Department | New York Post
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.
Staffers in the offices of deputy secretary of state for management and resources as well as counselor were shown the door Thursday, according to CBS News.
Many of those let go were on the building's seventh floor '-- top-floor bigs '-- a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.
The staffing changes came as Tillerson was on his first foreign trip '-- attending a G-20 meeting in Bonn, Germany.
''As part of the transition from one administration to the next, we continue to build out our team. The State Department is supported by a very talented group of individuals, both Republicans and Democrats,'' State Department spokesman RC Hammond told CBS.
''We are appreciative to any American who dedicates their talents to public,'' he added.
This week's round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month.
Four top officials were cleared out of the building at the end of January.
''As is standard with every transition, the outgoing administration, in coordination with the incoming one, requested all politically appointed officers submit letters of resignation,'' a State Department spokesman said at the time.
Secretary Rex Tillerson Begins Deconstructing 7th Floor ''Shadow Government'' at Dept of State'...
The term ''shadow government'' is not a construct of critics; it's actually the term the professional bureaucrats within the 7th floor of the Washington DC based Department of State gave to themselves.
The career political operatives who reign within the State Department openly view themselves as a distinctly separate state governing authority, with no attachment to the policies or objectives of the United States presidency or any mere elected official therein.
For years this group has considered themselves ''the untouchables''.
They live a life of high financed indulgence including: massive expense accounts, chartered airline travel, swanky cocktail parties, expense chauffeurs to take their kids to private school, seasonally designed home decor '' appointed by only the very best interior designers, personal security to keep the commoners away, tickets to the best venues and reserved seating at elite DC restaurants.
With first rights to the budget expenditures, the 7th floor group finds no indulgence too extravagant for their intellectual elitism. They demand nothing but the finest because they are the most worthy of the DC professionally privileged '' who are more equal than others; and after all, their jobs require them to host and visit like-minded diplomats, and celebrities with exclusive tastes from around the world.
Today, this elite crew collectively choked on their crust-less triangle sandwiches:
WASHINGTON DC '' ['...] Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed.
['...] Two sources also told CBS News that Ambassador Kristie Kenney, the Counselor of the State Department and one of the last remaining senior officials, was informed that she will be let go. She is a career foreign service officer who had served as an ambassador under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. Her staff was told that Secretary Tillerson does not intend to fill the counselor's position anytime soon.
['...] ''It is irresponsible to let qualified, nonpartisan, experienced people go before you have any idea of their replacement. You can't do foreign policy by sitting in the White House, just out of your back pocket,'' explains Tom Countryman, Former Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation who was let go earlier this month.
Countryman worries that the White House is displaying an intent not rely on the State Department for foreign policy in that no one will be in place to challenge the edicts drawn up in the Oval Office. (read more)
Ah yes, who will remain to ''challenge the edicts of the Oval Office''? Yes, that's what they see as 'THEIR JOB'. Those,.. those'... White House vulgarians are merely peon elected officials who represent the far inferior riff-raff types with lesser intellect and class.
Oh, the horror of it all'...
These entities see themselves as a complete and separate structure of government. They also function as a complete and separate ideological structure of government:
Deconstruction and realignment while simultaneously managing/controlling the amount of damage these internal agents will do toward the larger Trump administration objectives is a tenuous undertaking.
Secretary Rex Tillerson is tasked with taking the corrupt and rotting vehicle down to the frame and cutting out the cancerous rust. This is yet another epic battle with ZERO Washington DC supporters as Trump and T-Rex endeavor through the restoration phase.
We shall now see if the UniParty (Democrat and Republican) will try to impede such an effort:
''There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. '... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.''
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ministry of Truthiness
WashPost Owner Secretly Doing Business With the CIA
In 2013, it was revealed that Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post and retail behemoth Amazon, had secured a contract for $600 million with the intelligence agency '-- an agency that also happens to be seemingly rebelling against President Donald Trump. The contract came just four months after Bezos purchased the newspaper.''News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper's CIA coverage are left in the dark,'' Norman Solomon wrote for AlterNet. Despite requests to disclose its affiliation, the Washington Post repeatedly refused to post disclaimers confirming its owner's business ties with the agency.
The contract was for a computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services, which services all 17 agencies within America's intelligence community.
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Jeff Bezos
''For the risk-averse intelligence community, the decision to go with a commercial cloud vendor is a radical departure from business as usual,'' Frank Konkel noted in the Atlantic at the time.
The news of the secretive deal sparked outcry within the journalism community.
''If some official enemy of the United States had a comparable situation '-- say the owner of the dominant newspaper in Caracas was getting $600 million in secretive contracts from the Maduro government '-- the Post itself would lead the howling chorus impaling that newspaper and that government for making a mockery of a free press. It is time for the Post to take a dose of its own medicine,'' journalism scholar Robert W. McChesney wrote in a statement released by the Institute for Public Accuracy in 2013.
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Bezos had previously received criticism for using his companies to do the bidding of the intelligence community, as well. Shortly after Wikileaks published US State Department cables, the website was kicked off of Amazon's web-hosting service''WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon's webhosting service AWS. So at the height of public interest in what WikiLeaks was publishing, readers were unable to access the WikiLeaks website,'' media watch group FAIR noted at the time.
John Schindler, former NSA analyst and national security columnist for the Observer, published an article on Sunday titled, ''The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins,'' which asserts that the intelligence community is rebelling against Trump not only for the President's belligerent remarks but also because some of his senior officials are alleged to have ties to the Kremlin.
On Wednesday, Schindler was asked on Twitter, ''what do you think is going on inside NatSec right now after Trump's 'intelligence' tweet this morning?''
The intelligence insider responded, ''now we go nuclear. IC war going to new levels. Just got an EM fm senior IC friend, it began: 'He will die in jail.'''
The situation between the White House and the intelligence community is so bad, according to an explosive report from the Wall Street Journal, that agents are now beginning to withhold intelligence from the administration '-- a claim which the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has denied.
The intelligence community has also been leaking information from phone calls within the administration, including with the President himself.
Earlier this week, the leaks claimed their first victim: now-former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn.
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Flynn resigned on Monday night from his role in the Trump administration following a massive media campaign accusing him of contacting Russia's ambassador to the US about sanctions placed on the nation by then-President Barack Obama, and then misleading Trump's administration about his conversations.''I don't think he did anything wrong, if anything he did something right,'' Trump said during a news conference on Thursday. ''He was just doing his job.''
The leaked information was first reported by none other than Bezos' Washington Post.
''What emerges now is what, in intelligence parlance, is called an 'agent of influence' owning the Post '-- with a huge financial interest in playing nice with the CIA,'' former CIA official Ray McGovern told AlterNet in 2013. ''In other words, two main players nourishing the national security state in undisguised collaboration.''
What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like - NYTimes.com
I still have trouble seeing how the Trump administration survives a full term. Judging by his Thursday press conference, President Trump's mental state is like a train that long ago left freewheeling and iconoclastic, has raced through indulgent, chaotic and unnerving, and is now careening past unhinged, unmoored and unglued.
Trump's White House staff is at war with itself. His poll ratings are falling at unprecedented speed. His policy agenda is stalled. F.B.I. investigations are just beginning. This does not feel like a sustainable operation.
On the other hand, I have trouble seeing exactly how this administration ends. Many of the institutions that would normally ease out or remove a failing president no longer exist.
There are no longer moral arbiters in Congress like Howard Baker and Sam Ervin to lead a resignation or impeachment process. There is no longer a single media establishment that shapes how the country sees the president. This is no longer a country in which everybody experiences the same reality.
Everything about Trump that appalls 65 percent of America strengthens him with the other 35 percent, and he can ride that group for a while. Even after these horrible four weeks, Republicans on Capitol Hill are not close to abandoning their man.
The likelihood is this: We're going to have an administration that has morally and politically collapsed, without actually going away.
What does that look like?
First, it means an administration that is passive, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. To get anything done, a president depends on the vast machinery of the U.S. government. But Trump doesn't mesh with that machinery. He is personality-based while it is rule-based. Furthermore, he's declared war on it. And when you declare war on the establishment, it declares war on you.
The Civil Service has a thousand ways to ignore or sit on any presidential order. The court system has given itself carte blanche to overturn any Trump initiative, even on the flimsiest legal grounds. The intelligence community has only just begun to undermine this president.
President Trump can push all the pretty buttons on the command deck of the Starship Enterprise, but don't expect anything to actually happen, because they are not attached.
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Second, this will probably become a more insular administration. Usually when administrations stumble, they fire a few people and bring in the grown-ups '-- the James Baker or the David Gergen types. But Trump is anti-grown-up, so it's hard to imagine Chief of Staff Haley Barbour. Instead, the circle of trust seems to be shrinking to his daughter, her husband and Stephen Bannon.
Bannon has a coherent worldview, which is a huge advantage when all is chaos. It's interesting how many of Bannon's rivals have woken up with knives in their backs. Michael Flynn is gone. Reince Priebus has been unmanned by a thousand White House leaks. Rex Tillerson had the potential to be an effective secretary of state, but Bannon neutered him last week by denying him the ability to even select his own deputy.
In an administration in which ''promoted beyond his capacity'' takes on new meaning, Bannon looms. With each passing day, Trump talks more like Bannon without the background reading.
Third, we are about to enter a decentralized world. For the past 70 years most nations have instinctively looked to the U.S. for leadership, either to follow or oppose. But in capitals around the world, intelligence agencies are drafting memos with advice on how to play Donald Trump.
The first conclusion is obvious. This administration is more like a medieval monarchy than a modern nation-state. It's more ''The Madness of King George'' than ''The Missiles of October.'' The key currency is not power, it's flattery.
The corollary is that Trump is ripe to be played. Give the boy a lollipop and he won't notice if you steal his lunch. The Japanese gave Trump a new jobs announcement he could take to the Midwest, and in return they got presidential attention and coddling that other governments would have died for.
If you want to roll the Trump administration, you've got to get in line. The Israelis got a possible one-state solution. The Chinese got Trump to flip-flop on the ''One China'' policy. The Europeans got him to do a 180 on undoing the Iran nuclear deal.
Vladimir Putin was born for a moment such as this. He is always pushing the envelope. After gifting Team Trump with a little campaign help, the Russian state media has suddenly turned on Trump and Russian planes are buzzing U.S. ships. The bear is going to grab what it can.
We're about to enter a moment in which U.S. economic and military might is strong but U.S. political might is weak. Imagine the Roman Empire governed by Monaco.
That's scary. The only saving thought is this: The human imagination is vast, but it is not nearly vast enough to encompass the infinitely multitudinous ways Donald Trump can find to get himself disgraced.
Introducing: The Facebook Journalism Project | Facebook Media
Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other. We know that our community values sharing and discussing ideas and news, and as a part of our service, we care a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive.
That's why today we're announcing a new program to establish stronger ties between Facebook and the news industry. We will be collaborating with news organizations to develop products, learning from journalists about ways we can be a better partner, and working with publishers and educators on how we can equip people with the knowledge they need to be informed readers in the digital age.
The Facebook Journalism Project will work in three ways:
1) Collaborative development of news products
We can better serve the needs of people on Facebook, and those of our partners, when we work together to develop products. While we've worked with our news partners on this in the past, as part of the Facebook Journalism Project we'll begin an even deeper collaboration with news organizations across the spectrum, connecting our product and engineering teams so that we can build together from the early stages of the product development process.
New storytelling formats. As people's preferences for consuming news evolve, it's critical to work together on figuring out which new storytelling formats will help people be more informed. We want to work with partners to evolve our current formats '-- Live, 360, Instant Articles, etc. '-- to better suit their needs, and work with them on building entirely new ones. For example, we've heard from editors that they want to be able to present packages of stories to their most engaged readers on Facebook. We're starting to work with several partners on how best to do this. We're going to start testing this using Instant Articles, so that readers can start to see multiple stories at a time from their favorite news organizations. This is a very early test '-- and we will continue to work with partners on how to make this product great for them.
Local news. Local news is the starting place for great journalism '-- it brings communities together around issues that are closest to home. We're interested in exploring what we can build together with our partners to support local news and promote independent media. This initiative is in its earliest stages; we want to talk about it now so that we can get as much input from newsrooms and journalists as possible, working together to shape what local news on Facebook could look like.
Emerging business models. One key area of collaboration is existing and emerging business models. Many of our partners have placed a renewed emphasis on growing their subscription funnel, and we've already begun exploring ways we can support these efforts. This month our engineering team in collaboration with the engineering team of the German news organization BILD will launch a test to explore offering free trials to engaged readers, right from within Instant Articles. This is the kind of work we want to do more of. We'll also keep working on monetization options for partners, such as expanding our live ad break test to a wider group of partners, and exploring ad breaks in regular videos.
Hackathons. One of our longest standing traditions at Facebook is hackathons where our engineers take a break from their day-to-day work to explore new problems and technical solutions. We'll be launching a program globally where Facebook engineers will host sessions with developers from news organizations to collaborate to identify opportunities and hack solutions.
Continuing to listen. We meet regularly with our media and publishing partners '-- and as part of the Facebook Journalism Project we'll make an even more concerted effort to do so, with new rounds of meetings with publishers in the US and Europe, as a start in the months ahead. We'll expand that listening tour around the world over the course of the year. We'll host many of our global partners at F8, Facebook's annual conference in the Bay Area, and we'll keep sponsoring important journalism and publishing conferences, including the Digital Content Next conference in January and the Perugia Festival of Journalism this spring.
2) Training & Tools for Journalists
Training. In addition to the newsroom training we currently offer, we're now conducting a series of e-learning courses on Facebook products, tools and services for journalists. We will be expanding these trainings to nine additional languages, and partnering with Poynter to launch a certificate curriculum for journalists in the months ahead.
We regularly visit newsrooms to learn and share, and host journalists from around the world to discuss best practices so that they're able to discover information on our platform, distribute work on Facebook, and engage and build audiences around their reporting. Going forward, we will be providing training at scale for local newsrooms through collaborations with Knight Foundation, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Institute for NonProfit News, Local Independent News Online (LION), Institute for Journalism in New Media, Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media and more.
Tools. We recently acquired CrowdTangle, a tool to surface stories, measure their social performance and identify influencers. Today we are announcing that it will become free for our partners, which you can read more about on CrowdTangle.
We've seen that journalists are using Facebook Live to find and share news, and connect with their audiences. We're now building more tools to help journalists use Live to report and discover news as easily as possible. Today, we're launching the ability for Page administrators to designate specific journalists as contributors, giving them the ability to go live on behalf of the Page, a change designed to make such reporting more flexible for newsrooms. In the future, we also want to bring to Profiles all the flexibility that the Live API provides to Pages, so journalists can use their professional equipment to go live. And, we're now going to offer journalists a simple way to see how their public videos are performing on their Facebook profiles. You can read about these and other updates on our Media blog here.
Helping with eyewitness media. Eyewitnesses who upload videos and images during breaking news events have become powerful and important sources for journalists. We are proud to be a member of the First Draft Partner Network, a coalition of platforms and 80+ publishers, that works together to provide practical and ethical guidance in how to find, verify and publish content sourced from the social web. We will increase our commitment to First Draft, helping them establish a virtual verification community and more.
3) Training & Tools for Everyone
As we seek to support journalism, we will also be working on new ways to help give people information so they can make smart choices about the news they read '-- and have meaningful conversations about what they care about. Some of this we'll do in direct partnership with journalists; at other points we'll work with educators and researchers. We are kicking off this work in the weeks ahead, in meetings with news organizations globally, and will support existing and new projects for innovation and research. Our main areas of focus initially will be:
Promoting news literacy. We will work with third-party organizations on how to better understand and to promote news literacy both on and off our platform to help people in our community have the information they need to make decisions about which sources to trust. We will help organizations already doing important work in this area, such as the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, and bring a consortium of experts together to help decide on what new research to conduct and projects to fund. In the short-term, we are working with the News Literacy Project to produce a series of public service ads (PSAs) to help inform people on Facebook about this important issue. Our longer-term goal is to support news organizations with projects and ideas aimed at improving news literacy, including financial grants where needed.
Continuing efforts to curb news hoaxes. We recently announced improvements on our platform to further reduce the spread of news hoaxes '-- including ways for people to report them more easily and new efforts to disrupt the financial incentives for spammers. In addition, we launched a program to work with third-party fact checking organizations that are signatories of Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles to identify hoaxes on Facebook. This problem is much bigger than any one platform, and it's important for all of us to work together to minimize its reach.
This is just the beginning of our effort on that front '-- we have much more to do. The Facebook Journalism Project Page will serve as a hub for our efforts to promote and support journalism on Facebook, and we'll update you on our initiatives here.
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Dutch populist Geert Wilders calls some Moroccans 'scum' - BBC News
Image copyrightEPAImage caption Mr Wilders' championing of Donald Trump is having a negative effect on his poll ratings Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has launched his election campaign by calling some Moroccans "scum".
Mr Wilders tops opinion polls ahead of the 15 March parliamentary vote, but has seen his lead reduced in recent weeks.
He has vowed to ban Muslim immigration and shut mosques if he wins.
His latest comments come two months after he was convicted in a hate speech trial over his promise to reduce the number of Moroccans in the country.
Mr Wilders addressed his supporters on Saturday amid tight security in his party's stronghold of Spijkenisse, an ethnically-diverse area near Rotterdam.
"There is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe," he said. "If you want to regain your country, make the Netherlands for the people of the Netherlands again, then you can only vote for one party."
He emphasised that he thought "not all are scum".
According to the 2011 census, there were more than 167,000 Moroccan-born residents of the Netherlands, making up the third-largest group of non-EU residents, a figure that does not take into account second or third-generation Moroccans.
Why Dutch populist Geert Wilders is scenting victory
A few hundred supporters of Mr Wilders turned up in Spikenisse on Saturday morning, as did a small group of demonstrators.
"The things that he's going to do make very, very scared," one of the demonstrators, Emma Smeets, told Associated Press.
"A lot of people have gotten used to it and they don't protest any more, and I think it's important that you show your voice, that you don't agree with the things that are happening, and also just to get into contact with the people that are voting for him."
Image copyrightAPMr Wilders' Freedom Party holds 12 of the 150 seats in the lower house of Parliament. But his nearest rival, right-wing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, has narrowed the lead with just a month until the election is held.
The BBC's Anna Holligan, in The Hague, said Mr Wilders' championing of US President Donald Trump's policies appears to be backfiring, as many Dutch voters believe Mr Trump is bad for global stability.
Even if Mr Wilders wins, he may struggle to put together a coalition, as leading parties have said they would not work with him.
Mr Wilders' three-week trial last year was triggered when police received 6,400 complaints about remarks he had made during a municipal election campaign in The Hague.
At a rally, he asked supporters whether they wanted "fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands".
When the crowd shouted back "Fewer! Fewer!" a smiling Mr Wilders responded: "We're going to take care of that."
At the trial, prosecutors took testimony from Dutch-Moroccans who said his comments made them feel like "third-rate citizens". He was convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination.
Wilders start verkiezingscampagne: 'Te veel Marokkaans tuig ... - De Standaard Mobile
Onder grote belangstelling van de pers heeft de Nederlandse politicus Geert Wilders zaterdag in Spijkenisse nabij Rotterdam de verkiezingscampagne van de PVV afgetrapt. 'Nederland moet weer van de Nederlanders worden', herhaalde Wilders.
'Het is vandaag een historische dag en het worden historische verkiezingen', zei Wilders in een korte toespraak. Hij hield zijn toehoorders voor dat ze op de PVV moeten stemmen 'als u wilt dat u weer centraal komt te staan'. Ook herhaalde hij zijn bekende boodschap dat 'Nederland weer van de Nederlanders' moet worden en dat 'ons land zelf moet bepalen wie er binnenkomt'.
Vele tientallen journalisten uit binnen- en buitenland waren aanwezig. Zij willen zien of Wilders de eerste wordt in een rijtje van populistische politici die de verkiezingen winnen in Europa. Naast Wilders in Nederland maakt zo bijvoorbeeld ook Marine Le Pen (Front National) binnenkort kans om de verkiezingen te winnen in Frankrijk.
Tegen de Engelstalige verslaggevers verklaarde Wilders nog dat er 'te veel Marokkaans tuig' in Nederland rondloopt. Hij gaf toe dat niet alle Marokkaanse Nederlanders over dezelfde kam geschoren mogen worden. Maar vooral de jongeren maken onze straten gevaarlijk. Dat moet stoppen.'
Spijkenisse is een stad met ruim 70.000 inwoners, ten zuidwesten van Rotterdam. Wilders zei voor Spijkenisse te hebben gekozen omdat het een 'thuisplaats' van de PVV is. Een klein groepje mensen protesteerde tegen Wilders. Ze hielden borden op met teksten als 'Vluchtelingen welkom' en 'Laat je niet bang maken'.
Foto: AFPDe Nederlandse parlementsverkiezingen vinden plaats op 15 maart.
Germany aims to deport record number of rejected asylum seekers in 2017
Afghans, whose asylum applications have been rejected, arrive from Germany in Kabul airport, Afghanistan December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
BERLIN Germany deported a record 80,000 migrants denied asylum last year and that figure will rise again in 2017, a top official said, as Chancellor Angela Merkel seeks to win back conservative voters before elections in September.
Peter Altmaier, Merkel's chief of staff, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper that nearly half of 700,000 asylum requests made in 2016 had been rejected, spelling another record high in deportations this year.
To placate conservatives put off by Merkel's decision in 2015 to open German borders to refugees, leaders of her Christian Democrat party (CDU) have been pushing to deport more migrants whose applications have failed or foreigners who have committed crimes.
Altmaier said it was important to send these people home promptly in order to maintain a high level of public support for the asylum system.
Germany has taken in more than a million migrants in the last 18 months, often fleeing war and turmoil in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those seeking asylum need to show they would face persecution at home. Many whose applications are rejected have nevertheless been allowed to stay temporarily, a practice that Merkel's conservatives want to scale back.
"We sent home 80,000 last year whose asylum applications were rejected - that's a record," Altmaier said. "And the number will rise again further. There were some 700,000 asylum applications in 2016 and nearly 300,000 were rejected. We'll be sending these people home quickly because if we don't it'll damage our credibility as a state based on the rule of law."
Merkel has long argued the country needs to keep its doors open to those fleeing persecution while her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), wants an upper limit of 200,000 refugees per year.
Merkel has refused that demand and the two parties have suffered a slump in support as a result of their squabbling before the Sept. 24 election.
A poll in Bild am Sonntag showed the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) moving ahead of the conservative bloc for the first time since 2006.
Some polls put the right-wing, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany in third place.
Altmaier said he hoped the upper house of parliament, where the SPD and Greens can block the government, would soon agree to change the status of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco to allow automatic and swift rejections of asylum seekers from those countries. He also said that rejected asylum-seekers can live safely in some parts of Afghanistan.
(reporting by Erik Kirschbaum, editing by David Stamp)
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Britain's exit from EU irrevocable once triggered: ministerLONDON The process of Britain leaving the European Union is irrevocable once it has been triggered, a government minister said on Sunday.
U.S. senators consider sanctions against Iran for missile developmentMUNICH U.S. Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanction on Iran, accusing it of violating U.N. Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to "destabilize" the Middle East, a U.S. senator said Sunday.
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Bill Maher Shows Us Why You Can't Platform Fascists - IT'S GOING DOWN
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher invited the white nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos onto the show to discuss the recent string of deplatforming protests that have taken place over the past few months.
After the regular show aired, a segment called Overtime started and this is when we learned just how far liberalism had fallen.
Maher started off with a strong question about Milo's doxing of a transgender woman on stage at the University of Wisconsin. Milo quickly started by calling the woman ''he'' and continued using male pronouns throughout the segment and defending his actions by saying he was only outing the student to ''protect'' women and children from this ''confused'' person.
Maher quickly replied that Milo's protection of women and children was ''not unreasonable'' and turned to his other guest, Republican Rep. Jack Kingston to ask how he felt about ''weirdos peeing.''
Maher, a self-proclaimed liberal, though he tends to dwell more in the libertarian realm, once again threw transgender men and women under the bus. His validation of Milo's tactics and use of transphobic language really sealed the deal.
When Larry Wilmore, another guest on the show tried to hold Milo accountable, Milo shot back saying that trans people ''disproportionately'' accounted for the world's sexual predators, Maher did nothing to combat this statement. Wilmore tried but to little avail. Milo said it was proven and Maher did nothing to counter.
This shows just why it is so important to combat speech like Milo's by shutting it down. Liberals and free speech absolutists praised Maher for bringing Milo onto the show and challenging his ideas. Instead, he brought Milo on and let him espouse his ideas with little to no pushback.
Milo was given a massive HBO audience to spread his bigotry and the audience saw the host do nothing to counter it.
Yet, one would expect Maher to agree with Milo. It was Maher who, before the election, called trans issues ''pet issues'' and asked them to drop it in favor of electing Hillary Clinton.
When activists showed up at Berkeley and shut Milo down, they saved lives. They saved the students which Milo was set to out as immigrants and teach his audience to do the same. When Milo takes the stage, he causes damage to real lives.
His free speech is not violated, he can go yell in a field or at his computer. He has no right to a platform and anyone who wishes to give him one should be met with fierce resistance.
On Friday night, Milo spread his message loud and clear, and Maher confirmed it. This version of Maher's liberalism, coupled with Milo's white nationalism, labeled trans individuals as sexual predators and weirdos.
We must ensure there is no platform for fascists, on college campuses or on national television.
The 25th
Why the 25th Amendment is suddenly getting so much attention | MSNBC
Trump not delivering on promised 'winning' Rachel Maddow looks at the problems Donald Trump has had with the most basic staffing of his administration, and at the failure of Trump's only significant policy initiative so far, the now-dead travel ban.
Reflecting on recent events, the New York Times' David Brooks' latest column noted, ''I still have trouble seeing how the Trump administration survives a full term. Judging by his Thursday press conference, President Trump's mental state is like a train that long ago left freewheeling and iconoclastic, has raced through indulgent, chaotic and unnerving, and is now careening past unhinged, unmoored and unglued.''This is not an uncommon sentiment. During Donald Trump's press conference yesterday, a variety of reporters in the room were overheard whispering among each other about the ''insane'' nature of president's performance. There was a similar reaction on Capitol Hill: NBC News' Kasie Hunt said lawmakers from both parties watched the event with their ''jaws on the floor.''
Earlier in the week, the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr. asked a question many have pondered, but few have spoken aloud: ''What is this democratic nation to do when the man serving as president of the United States plainly has no business being president of the United States?'' His colleague, Dana Milbank, recently conceded, ''My worry is the president of the United States is barking mad.''
Ordinarily, conversations along these lines lead to questions about possible impeachment proceedings and congressional options for removing a president from office. But if my email inbox is any indication, there's growing interest in the options available through the 25th Amendment '' which has a Wikipedia page that's apparently being referenced more and more all the time.
In fact, The Atlantic's David Frum joked after the election, ''Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Article 4. We're all going to be talking a lot more about it in the months ahead.''
So, what's Article 4 to the 25th Amendment? In the abstract, the amendment itself is about presidential succession, and includes language about the power of the office when a president is incapacitated. But Digby recently highlighted the specific text of growing relevance:
''Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.''
And what does that mean exactly?Well, it means Congress isn't the only institution that can remove a president from office between elections. Under the 25th Amendment, a sitting vice president and a majority of the executive branch's cabinet could, on their own, agree to transfer power out of the hands of a sitting president. At that point, those officials would notify Congress, and the vice president would assume the office as the acting president.And what if the challenged president wasn't on board with the plan to remove him/her from the office? As Vox recently explained, ''If the president wants to dispute this move, he can, but then it would be up to Congress to settle the matter with a vote. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be necessary to keep the vice president in charge. If that threshold isn't reached, the president would regain his powers.''
All of this comes up in fiction from time to time, and in all likelihood, Americans will probably never see this political crisis play out in real life. And that's probably a good thing: by all appearances, the intended purpose of the constitutional provision was to address a president with a serious ailment '' say, a stroke, for example '' in which he or she is alive, but unable to fulfill the duties of the office.
It probably wasn't written to deal with a president who seems, to borrow a phrase, ''barking mad.''
But the law exists, and the possibility that Mike Pence and half of the administration's still-incomplete cabinet '' a group of people who owe their jobs to the president whose stability has been called into question '' is the subject of scuttlebutt, even from a handful of members of Congress. That possibility has created hope among Trump's detractors that he may be legally removed from office before 2020.
That said, my advice to Trump's critics is simple: keep your expectations low. Strange things clearly happen '' having a clownish television personality in the Oval Office is itself an unprecedented historical development '' but the odds of Trump's own team feeling compelled to remove the president from power are poor.
The Associated Press released a story on Friday claiming the Trump administration considered a proposal to round up illegal immigrants using as many as 100,000 National Guard troops. Now sources are saying perhaps several different versions of this memo were drafted up to smoke out the leaker.
AP reported:
The Trump administration considered a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana. The document can be accessed at
Four states that border on Mexico were included in the proposal '-- California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas '-- but it also encompasses seven states contiguous to those four '-- Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer responded to this report:
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday the document was ''not a White House document.''
''There is no effort to do what is potentially suggested,'' he said. Spicer called the AP report ''100 percent not true,'' adding that there was ''no effort at all to utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants.''
Screenshot of part of the first page of the memo (from AP Twitter account):
The full memo can be accessed here.
Now sources are saying that the National Guard memo perhaps has several different versions so Donald Trump can smoke out the leaker'... Stay tuned, story developing.
Via Mike Cernovich:
Multiple sources within the WH have told me that the ''memo'' on the 100K National Guard soldiers was fake news designed to smoke out leaker.
'-- Mike Cernovich ðºð¸ (@Cernovich) February 17, 2017
Same group who leaked the National Guard ''memo'' also created the fake news story about Flynn. @realDonaldTrump is FURIOUS. #BringBackFlynnhttps://t.co/JYsbs49R55
'-- Mike Cernovich ðºð¸ (@Cernovich) February 17, 2017
Give 10 different people 10 different copies of the ''same'' memo. Include 1 different words or typos in each. Oldest trick in the book.
'-- Mike Cernovich ðºð¸ (@Cernovich) February 17, 2017
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Stop saying Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, says psychiatrist who defined it - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio
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Allen Frances says he's tired of "amateur diagnosticians" insisting that U.S. President Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder.
And he should know. As the chair of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, Frances literally helped write the definition of NPD.
In a letter to the New York Times, Frances, a retired Duke University professor, wrote that Trump "may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder."
He was responding to another letter to the Times '-- signed by 35 psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers '-- declaring Trump mentally unfit for the job of commander-in-chief. In doing so, they were flouting a longstanding American Psychiatric Association ethical policy barring mental health professionals diagnosing public figures from a distance.
'It's a very strange society that thinks that it's somehow worse to call Donald Trump mentally ill than to call him evil.'- Psychiatrist Allen Frances
Asked why he felt the need to respond, Frances told told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann: "I don't think Donald Trump qualifies for a mental disorder."
But make no mistake, Frances is no fan of the president.
"It's insulting '-- insulting to the people who have mental illness, who do suffer a great deal of distress and impairment '-- to be lumped with someone like Donald Trump," he said.
'Psychiatric name-calling'Frances has long spoken out against what he sees as a tendency to over-diagnose mental ilness, and he says he's especially weary when people do it to explain behaviour they don't like.
"When people are bad, they should be labelled appropriately and denounced for their behaviours. We should not use mental illness to slur someone," he said. "It's a very strange society that thinks that it's somehow worse to call Donald Trump mentally ill than to call him evil."
While he admits Trump appears to fit some of the DSM-V criteria for the disorder, that's not enough.
"Having traits doesn't mean you have a disorder. Having a personality doesn't mean that you have a mental illness. It also has to cause considerable, clinically significant distress and impairment," he said.
As for his colleagues? He believes they are well-meaning, but should find political avenues to express their concerns rather than resorting to "psychiatric name-calling."
DMV criteria for narcissistic personality disorder are:
Exaggerated sense of self-importance.Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it.Exaggerating your achievements and talents.Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people.Requiring constant admiration.Having a sense of entitlement.Expecting special favours and unquestioning compliance with your expectations.Taking advantage of others to get what you want.Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.Being envious of others and believing others envy you.Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner.Source: Mayo Clinic.
MH17
Russia presents to the Netherlands original and exclusive radar data | Russia Beyond The Headlines
Russia has presented to the Netherlands data on crash of the Malaysian Boeing in the maximum detailed form, the aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, said on Feb. 18. "The radar data were presented to the Holland side in the maximum detailed form - unprocessed - which proves automatically they are original and exclusive," the authority's statement reads.
Although the format, in which the Netherlands requests data from radars on MH-17 crash would not allow seeing even 25% of the radar's primary information, Russia's aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, said in a statement.
"The ASTERIX format, which the Netherlands requires, means the data is transferred in processed form, which, in fact, makes them secondary information, which would not allow seeing even 25% of what the primary data inside radar are demonstrating," the statement reads.
G.I. Pepe '' A Real American Hero '' Photo Contest Winning Prize Kek StatueExactly one week ago, we announced the winner of our first ever Facebook group photo contest to see who can come up with the best G.I.Pepe: A Real American Hero meme. We originally supplied the templates to work with and were very impressed with the fresh G.I.Pepe Memes we were able to come up with. We ran the contest for 7 days (SHADILAY) and at the end we let everybody vote for the best one. The winner was awarded a Kek Statue for their efforts!
We had a total five entries and we loved every single one of them! We were surprised by the results but why not take a look for yourself!
G.I.Pepe -A Real American Hero Photo Contest Winner
G.I.Pepe -A Real American Hero Photo Contest 2nd Place
G.I.Pepe -A Real American Hero Photo Contest 3rd Place
G.I.Pepe -A Real American Hero Photo Contest 4th Place
G.I.Pepe -A Real American Hero Photo Contest 5th Place
Feel free to steal these from us as they are definitely the rarest Pepe's to date that we have been able to come up with. Remember to spread them far and wide! G.I. Pepe truly is A Real American Hero!
Think you can come up with a better meme? Want to give it a shot and see if you can reproduce something with an even bigger impact? Download our G.I. Pepe: A Real American Hero templates to dive in and try it for yourself.
Join our Facebook Group as well, we are actively looking for new members all the time. No normies allowed! Shadilay.
You can always follow us on our new Twitter and now Instagram (for the rarest and freshest Pepe memes) or visit our Facebook Public Page as well!
Pepe the Frog isn't a harmless meme propagated by teenagers on the internet.
Pepe the Frog is, in fact, the modern-day avatar of an ancient Egyptian deity accidentally resurrected by online imageboard culture.
Does that sound like the most b@tsh#t crazy thing you've ever heard?
Strap in, friendo. You're in for one hell of a ride.
(UPDATE 11/9/16: Well memed, America, well memed. A post-election follow-up to this article has been added here.)
When Memes Collide: The Origins of Pepe the FrogThe precise origins of Pepe the Frog are, like all imageboards memes, obscure and unimportant.
All you really need to know is that sometime around 2010, a sad-looking cartoon frog began to trend among posters on 4chan.org and similar ''underground'' imageboards.
Shortly after, the age-old piece of online vernacular used to express laughter'--''LOL'''--fell out of favor on these sites.
In its place a new slang term of synonymous meaning rose to common use: ''KEK.''
The origins of this trend are much more important. It comes from an odd technicality involving the Korean language and the popular video game World of Warcraft.
Keep that in mind for later.
And so, just like that, two seemingly unrelated elements that would later give life to a deity were arranged in piecemeal fashion. But they remained dormant for several years, up until'...
Donald Trump and the 2016 ElectionBy this time, Pepe the Frog had become the unofficial mascot for 4chan's political discussion board (a highly despised corner of the Internet fittingly entitled ''Politically Incorrect'').
/Pol/ is a place where the unspoken outsiders of Millennial culture gather en masse. Here you'll find the lonely and depressed, the socially inept, the generational dropouts, and all shades of disenfranchised youth'--every one of them united with an unshakable underdog mentality that pervades the forum's every kilobyte.
To call this place a ''white nationalist'' or ''alt-right'' message board is categorically incorrect. /Pol/, above all else, is place where our society's status quo is mercilessly challenged. It's a melting pot for well-meaning free thinkers and misguided mad men alike.
It is a place of chaos.
So when Donald J. Trump strolled onto the political scene in 2015, it was a match made in heaven. He immediately became /pol/'s candidate of choice.
And it wasn't long before Trump was mated with /pol/'s beloved mascot, in typical imageboard fashion:
And then, something very strange began to happen'...
The Digits Declare a DeityOne last thing you need to understand about imageboard culture: dubs.
Every post on 4chan and similar venues comes with an 8-digit numerical stamp. This number represents that post's entry position in the entire posting lineage of the imageboard.
With the amount of traffic these sites get, the last couple digits of this number are essentially a random roll. When a poster gets repeated digits, its called ''dubs'', ''trips'', ''quads'', and so on.
Since a poster can't know their post number until after they've submitted the post, its common for people to ''bet'' the contents of their message on the occurrence of repeating digits, like so:
When that endeavor proves a successful, a ''GET'' has been made and the stroke of luck is celebrated.
Out of this practice, a strange phenomenon began to take place on /pol/: discussion threads associated with Trump displayed noticeably frequent GETs.
It wasn't long before all of these seemingly random elements discussed so far became irreparably tied together within imageboard culture:
Pepe the Frog (now /pol/'s unofficial mascot)Donald Trump (/pol/'s overwhelming candidate of choice)Repeating digit post numbers (''GETS'')''KEK'' (used as an expression of delight, particular in response to Trump's ''trolling'' of the establishment, as well as in reaction to unlikely GETs in general)'...and a god was born.
Here's Where It Starts To Get Weird: The Queer Coincidence of KekSoon, it became all the rage on /pol/ to hail Trump as nothing less than god's chosen candidate.
But which god's chosen candidate exactly?
The answer is obvious: Kek.
Remember how we learned that ''kek'' the meme came about from an obscure Korean language onomatopoeia, completely independently from Pepe the Frog?
Well, it turns out Kek is also'--and always has been'--an ancient Egyptian deity'...
A frog-headed one.
Quite the coincidence, wouldn't you say? ''A little,'' perhaps you reply.
''A little'' indeed, but that's just the very tip of the synchronicity iceberg. That's just where this unfathomable string of ''coincidences'' begins. And where it ends? We just don't know. Day by day this all getting stranger'...
The second major (''little'') coincidence can be found when one looks into what Kek stood for among the ancient Egyptian pantheon:
Kuk (also spelled as Kek or Keku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion'...
'...Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk's male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light.
And who else, at this point, had been declared a ''bringer of light'' into the world by enthusiastic supporters (mainstream and imageboard alike)?
It gets even weirder.
The pot really started to boil when this bizarre misprint statuette was dug up from a mysterious vendor called ''Ancient Treasures'' on Amazon. For years the product had been coincidentally mislabeled a ''KEK'' statue, despite actually bearing the hieroglyphics for the frog goddess HEQET.
And ya know, the thing about this ONE unique arrangement of hieroglyphics'...they bear an undeniable resemblance to a certain special something:
Do you see it?
A person sitting down. In front of a computer.
Like say, to post on an imageboard?
And what's that on the other side of the computer?
With this ''holy talisman's'' discovery, The Cult of Kek suddenly took on a concrete form. This new digital ''faith'' is summed up neatly in this image passed around on all the major imageboards of the day:
It Gets Weirder: Pepe/Keke ''Emerges'' in Plain Sight on September 11th, 2016
Soon, /pol/'s users were'--quite ironically, at first'--attributing all strokes of luck for the Trump campaign (and likewise, all strokes of misfortune for the Hillary campaign) to their benevolent frog-headed deity that spoke to them in dubs.
But all of that came to a head on September 11th, 2016, when three major, mind-blowing events transpired within 48 hours of each other. Three events that would change the face of Kek worship forever:
Hillary Clinton fainted or nearly fainted in New York. The overwhelming sentiment of /Pol/ '--still reeling from the event'--is captured two days later in this post:
(Note this person's post number)
Hillary Clinton literally declares Pepe the Frog an enemy of the state with paper-thin reasoning: Here's the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.
But in recent months, Pepe's been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the ''alt-right.'' They've decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.
What can I or anyone else hope to add here? How bizarre does reality get? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Oh, I see how deep'...
(REALLY F#CKI'N WEIRD)Kek/Pepe's musical anthem is discovered on YouTube:Now get a load of this one.
While all of this was happening, one or a few anonymous 4chan contributors discovered an old track from the 80's on YouTube. A track stamped all over with a very familiar face:
That's right folks. A B-side vinyl by performer ''P. E. P. E.'', sporting a frog with a magic wand.
A frog.
And what's P. E. P. E. stand for?
PointEmergingProbably Entering''Probably.'' What are sweet repeating digit GETs all about? Probability.
What is this ''gist'' of Kekism on /pol/? He speaks to them through dubs. Their ancient egyptian god of obscurity and chaos ''emerges/enters'' at ''points'' of ''probability.''
Feel like that's a stretch? Check out what the full-length vocal version's album artwork is adorned with:
Don't see the significance? Let 4chan help you:
(Again, note the post's number)
And'--hey'--who's that fair-haired man pointed towards Trump Tower's clock in the artwork?
Gee, I wonder who.
Okay, What The Hell Is Going On?Most likely? Chaos Magick.
You see, one of the core tenets of Chaos Magick practice (the only mainstay, really) is the creation of magic sigils (also called ''glyphs'') to ''codify and project one's Will into the Universe.''
Basically, you make an image that represents your ''will'' (desire fueled by powerful emotions or altered states) and the universe will take care of the rest.
When a lot of people pool their united willpower towards a single sigil, its called a Hypersigil, and its exponentially more potent.
Pepe/Kek is 4chan's hypersigil.
Millions of the ''little people'' that browse 4chan have embedded the image of Pepe with their hatred for Hillary's alleged corruption, and their hope for Trump's victory over her in November. Whether they did this consciously or not, its exactly what has happened.
And so far, their hypersigil seems to be working.
Hold Up: You're Seriously Telling Me Magic Is Real?Absolutely I am. But you must understand, ''magic'' probably isn't what you think it is. It's not about wand-waving or pentagrams or sacrificing babies.
Magick is actually much less involved than that. As a matter of fact, you're casting magick right now. You pretty much always are, whether you like it or not.
That's because the REAL magic comes from plain and simple human attention. How you look at reality shapes it in ways that we're only now beginning to fully understand. Ironically, the science of quantum physics is rapidly bringing the reality of magick to light (shadilay).
In my book You're Imagining Things, I'll tell you how it works''and WHY it works''in plain-spoken English. I'll also explain how you can use your attention to alter your own little pocket of reality in extraordinary ways. You can click on the image below to purchase the book off Amazon.
Because I mean, hey, this whole magic(k) thing sure worked out for 4chan, didn't it? Get used to hearing ''President Trump'' for the next four years (eight, if the memes stay strong).
So What Happens Next?Most likely? Kek will continue to grow in power and continue to oppose Hillary Clinton and the corrupt political establishment. Will the Lord of Light win out over the powers that be? We shall find out very soon. (UPDATE 11/9/16: We found out what happened, didn't we?)
This is awesome.Yes.
What can I do to help?Meme.
(And spread this around on social media.)
(And keep an eye on TheCultofKek.com for big things on the horizon.)
(More questions? Click the triangle at the bottom of the page.)
Apple, a company that makes pretty good phones and computers, is diving into the world of original content for some reason. The company just released the first teaser trailer for its new show, ''Planet of the Apps,'' and the experience of watching it is similar to what I'd imagine being slowly lowered into a vat of acid feels like.
The trailer was unveiled last light at Recode's Code Media conference by Eddy Cue, the Apple executive with questionable music taste, and Ben Silverman, a former NBC executive. The concept for the show is uniquely awful'--it's almost as if the folks at Apple dreamed up the most unoriginal and potentially nauseating show just to see if people would watch it anyway.
It combines noted tech geniuses like Gwyneth Paltrow, will.i.am'--creator of many successful and useful technology products'--Vayner Media CEO Gary Vaynerchuck, and Jessica Alba, whose brand of organic baby powder was recently recalled. Apple calls them the world's ''most culturally influential entrepreneurs,'' because sure, why not?
The contestants, however, probably have it the worst. They're forced through the humiliating experience of pitching their app'--one is described as the ''eBay for the Snapchat generation'''--while literally riding down an escalator, like some sort of second-rate Donald Trump. The esteemed tech geniuses then decide if they want to hear more. It remains to be seen whether a ''no'' causes a pit at the bottom of the escalator to suddenly open, sending the failed contestants into the fiery pits of hell.
Following the premier of the trailer, Recode's Peter Kafka turned to Silverman and asked: ''How come no one has made a show about apps until now? It seems like there's a good reason there hasn't been an app reality show.'' Silverman explained the real ''game changer'' with this show is that the people who watch it will be able to instantly download the apps and ''connect with the product that night.'' Sure, sounds like fun.
Anyway, this show looks pretty bad, and it's a pretty safe bet to say it will flop, particularly given that it will live on Apple Music. If for some reason your vision isn't going and you're still able to comprehend reality, the full interview is here.
[Recode]
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This year's flu vaccine is offering moderate protection against the main family of viruses causing illness, data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
The data comes as what has been a pretty active flu season is near its apex in many parts of the country.
''We won't know when the peak has occurred until we've passed it and have a couple of weeks to look back,'' said Lynnette Brammer, head of domestic influenza surveillance at the CDC. ''We hopefully are approaching the peak but we may not be there yet.''
Overall, getting a flu shot cut one's risk of contracting flu and needing to see a doctor by 48 percent this season, when the effectiveness of the various components of the vaccine were assessed together, according to the report published in the CDC's online journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Far and away the most common cause of influenza so far this year is the influenza A virus family known as H3N2. Seasons when H3N2 viruses dominate are typically harsh because the virus is especially hard on older adults. Older adults also get less benefit from flu vaccines than healthy younger people.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
As well, the H3N2 component of the flu vaccine has not worked as well as other components in recent years. Flu vaccines are combination vaccines, protecting against three and sometimes four different flu strains.
Mixed effectivenessThis year is not an exception. The CDC data, drawn from five surveillance sites across the country, suggest that the H3N2 component of the 2016-17 flu vaccine offered about 43 percent protection against medically attended influenza.
To put that in context, the influenza B component of the vaccine this year appears to offer about 73 percent protection. The CDC could not estimate vaccine effectiveness for the influenza A H1N1 component of the vaccine because those viruses haven't played much of a role so far this winter.
''It's not as good as we would like to see, and we've seen higher for some of the seasons '-- more for H1N1 and for [flu] B,'' said Brendan Flannery, an epidemiologist with the CDC's influenza division.
''But for H3N2, it's as good as we have seen for some of the H3N2 seasons that have been well matched.''
In the last H3N2-dominant flu season, in 2014-15, the target virus in the vaccine was not well matched to the viruses that were making people sick. That year data suggested the vaccine offered virtually no protection against H3N2 viruses.
The need for better vaccines''Forty percent to 50 percent is a lot better than zero, but what it really begs the question is: Why are we not working hard to get new and better flu vaccines?'' said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy and a long-time advocate for the development of more effective flu vaccines.
''Last year we spent over a billion dollars researching new HIV vaccines '-- an amount that I think is an important investment. But the best estimate we can come up with is we only spend about $35 million globally on '... research on new game-changing flu vaccines.''
The US findings mesh with vaccine effectiveness results seen elsewhere this season.
Last week Canadian researchers reported they are seeing about 42 percent protection from the H3N2 component of the vaccine north of the border. And European scientists reported vaccine effectiveness of 38 percent for H3N2 on Thursday.
Jacqueline Katz, deputy director of the CDC's influenza division, said a theory behind the poor performance of the H3N2 component of the vaccine relates to the way flu vaccine is produced.
Most influenza vaccine is produced in hen's eggs; the viruses have to adapt to grow in eggs. That's true of all families of flu but for some reason the H3N2 viruses adapt in ways that introduce important differences. In essence, the viruses produced in the eggs are different from the viruses circulating in people and don't adequately prime immune systems to recognize and fend off those viruses. In some years those differences are more pronounced than others.
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Sen. John McCain spoke out Saturday in defense of the free press after President Trump lashed out against the news media several times over the past week, at one point declaring it ''the enemy of the American People!''
Such talk, McCain (R-Ariz.) said on NBC News in an interview set to air Sunday, was ''how dictators get started.''
''In other words, a consolidation of power,'' McCain told ''Meet the Press'' host Chuck Todd from Munich. ''When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.''
The 80-year-old Republican senator was responding to several tweets by Trump over the past week, in which he repeatedly attacked the media as ''fake news.'' In one widely shared tweet Friday, Trump said the press was ''not my enemy'' but that of the American people.
[Enemy of the people: A history of use, from Nero and Hitler to Stalin and Mao]
In it, Trump tagged the New York Times, CNN and broadcast news networks NBC, ABC and CBS.
In the backlash to the tweet, #NotTheEnemy began trending, with people sharing stories about journalists who had dedicated their lives to '-- and, in some instances, paid the ultimate price for '-- reporting the news.
In the ''Meet the Press'' interview, McCain told Todd that a free press was central to a functional democracy, even if news organizations' stories challenged those being held accountable.
''I hate the press. I hate you, especially,'' he said to Todd, who laughed. ''But the fact is, we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.''
''If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and, many times, adversarial press,'' McCain added. ''And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.''
These days, it is difficult not to notice McCain, whose dissenting voice can be heard '-- and is often amplified '-- criticizing Trump. In the four weeks since Trump's inauguration, McCain has made headlines rebutting White House press secretary Sean Spicer and ripping Trump's worldview in a speech in Munich without ever mentioning the president's name.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hit out at President Trump in a speech on Feb. 17 at the Munich Security Conference, saying, "this administration is in disarray." (Reuters)
Even before the inauguration, McCain was emerging as one of the few Republicans who was not afraid to criticize Trump, blasting the president-elect's reported consideration of reinstating waterboarding as an interrogation technique.
''I don't give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do or anybody else wants to do. We will not waterboard. We will not torture,'' McCain said to applause at a November summit, emphasizing certain words with a point of his finger. ''My God, what does it say about America if we're going to inflict torture on people?''
McCain's repeated criticisms of Trump have triggered the president's wrath, most recently after McCain questioned the success of a deadly military raid in Yemen.
This week, McCain appears on the cover of the Feb. 20 issue of New York magazine, where he candidly discusses operating in the Trump administration in a nearly 5,000-word profile by Gabriel Sherman, the magazine's national affairs editor.
In one particularly strongly worded exchange, McCain does not hold back on how he views the severity of alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election.
''The severity of this issue, the gravity of it, is so consequential because if you succeed in corrupting an election, then you've destroyed the foundation of democracy,'' McCain told Sherman. ''So I view it with the utmost seriousness. I view it more seriously than a physical attack. I view it more seriously than Orlando or San Bernardino. As tragic as that was, the far-reaching consequences of an election hack are certainly far in excess of a single terrorist attack.''
Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said later, would not stop ''until the cost of going forward is too high." (As for why his Republican colleagues were not more vocal about demanding investigations of Trump's Russian connections, McCain told Sherman pithily: ''I frankly don't know. It's not a chapter of 'Profiles in Courage.'")
In the wide-ranging profile, which covers everything from Supreme Court justice nominee Neil Gorsuch to Trump's poll numbers, McCain also defends the news media in relation to leaks that have come from the Trump administration.
''In democracies, information should be provided to the American people,'' McCain told Sherman. ''How else are the American people going to be informed?''
[Memo to Donald Trump: Thomas Jefferson invented hating the media]
The dramatic headline on the cover of the magazine '-- ''McCain vs. Trump: Just how far will the senator go?" '-- is in many ways an oversimplification of their relationship, a facile understanding McCain himself pushes against throughout Sherman's piece. At one point, McCain dismisses the idea that he could be swayed by Democrats seeking to protest Trump's agenda.
''These are the same Democrats that shredded me in 2008,'' McCain told Sherman. ''I get along with the Democrats, but please, I'm not their hero. They're trying to use us. We will work with them, but have no doubt, their agenda is not our agenda.''
And McCain's criticisms of Trump could hurt Democrats in other ways, The Post's Dave Weigel notes in his analysis of the latest crop of McCain-centered headlines:
Pushed by their party's base, Senate Democrats have been moved from generally supporting Trump nominees to mostly opposing them. . . . But right now, progressives view the Democratic Party warily. They can ill afford a story line in which Republicans such as McCain (or Evan McMullin, or Joe Scarborough) are the real leaders of the opposition.
Still, McCain told Sherman he was not concerned about Trump's administration becoming an ''authoritarian regime.''
''I just don't think it's possible in our society,'' he said in the profile. ''There's too many checks and balances. The danger is not Trump perverting our Constitution or taking too much power; the danger is the polarization of America.''
Read more:
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John McCain is quickly becoming Trump's chief antagonist in the Senate
VIDEO - Wasserman Schultz Says She Doesn't Want to Impeach Trump...Yet - YouTube
The media were at DEFCON three Thursday following a lengthy and heated press conference with President Donald Trump where he went toe-to-toe with the biased press. Trump's tongue lashing of the media had Fox News' Shepard Smith frothing at the mouth with anger as he accused the president with a dubious smear during his show. ''Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it and your people were on the phone with Russia the same day it was happening and we're fools asking the questions,'' he shouted with claims no report had ever made.
''No, sir, we're not fools for asking this question and we demand to know the answer to this question. You owe this to the American people,'' Smith continued to yell. But no report had ever made the claim that Trump's campaign staff was on the phone with Russian intelligence ''the same day'' the hacks were happening.
Un-ironically, Smith chastised the president for spewing ''demonstrably, unquestionably, 100 percent, opinion aside, false'' statements. Smith seemed to try and make the connections that many in the media hope are there but have not been found by the FBI. According to the leaked information from the FBI investigation, there has been no evidence discovered of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
That's what Smith would call a ''demonstrable truth.'' The Fox News host went on to lecture the president about the importance of telling the truth:
Your supporters will support you either way. If your people were on the phone, what were your people saying? We have a right to know. We absolutely do. And that you call us fake news and put us down like children for asking these questions on behalf of the American people. It's inconsequential. The people deserve that answer at very least.
Smith was also put off by Trump's tussle with CNN's Jim Acosta. He praised Acosta by stating that he's ''an accomplished reporter, a guy I've never met but a good reporter. I mean, treating him like he's -- I'm not going to use the word. I'm not going to give Twitter love it needs.''
True, it is an important issue that needs to be answered. But flying off the handle into hyperbole and spouting off lies does little to help the situation, and only serves to exacerbate tensions. The FBI is investigating their communications so there will be an answer to the press's questions one way or another.
VIDEO - Nets Freak Out Over Trump Presser: 'Combative,' 'Shocking,' 'Unhinged' | MRCTV
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Friday, the broadcast networks continued their hyperventilating over President Trump taking on the media during his Thursday press conference. All three morning shows were beside themselves as hosts and correspondents breathlessly hurled one sensational adjective after another to describe the event, including: ''raucous,'' ''combative,'' ''shocking,'' ''jaw-dropping,'' ''unhinged,'' and ''astonishing.''
At the top of NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: ''...the President holds a raucous and combative face-off with the media, defending his first month in office....This morning, the highs and lows of a White House news conference like no other in history.'' Introducing the coverage moments later, he noted: ''...a lot of the talk is still focused on those fireworks from Mr. Trump's first solo news conference.''
VIDEO - Pelley: Trump's Problem Isn't the Media, It's That He Can't Follow the Constitution! | MRCTV
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
On Friday's CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley strayed into punditry as he observed that ''the common denominator of Mr. Trump's woes is the Constitution'' and not the media because they didn't cause the departure of Mike Flynn, halt his immigration executive order, or have Andy Pudzer withdraw as the Labor Secretary nominee.
While discussing the reaction to President Trump's first three weeks in office with Face the Nation host John Dickerson, Pelley acknowledged a new Trump tweet in which he denounced ''[t]he FAKE NEWS media'' as ''not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!''
VIDEO - FULL ' JOHN MCCAIN TRASHES TRUMP IN MUNICH SPEECH McCain rips Trump at Munich Security Conference - YouTube
February 17, 2017Munich Security Conference Panel on U.S.-Transatlantic Relations Senate Armed Services Committee Chair John McCain (R-AZ) joined a panel of presidents and foreign ministers to discuss the future of U.S.-transatlantic relations at the'... read more
Munich Security Conference Panel on U.S.-Transatlantic Relations Senate Armed Services Committee Chair John McCain (R-AZ) joined a panel of presidents and foreign ministers to discuss the future of U.S.-transatlantic relations at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Senator McCain was asked about the resignation of Michael Flynn as President Trump's national security adviser. He said it showed signs of administration ''disarray,'' but that he would remain committed to working with the White House on issues such as rebuilding the military.
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VIDEO - Major Storm Lucifer Impacts Southern California On Friday; Upgraded To Category Five (Video) | Prophecy
Major Pacific Storm Lucifer has been upgraded to category five out of the one through six system here at Southern California Weather Force, impacting on your Friday. Lucifer is pending a category six, the highest on our scale. Our rare Hurricane Wind Speed Warning is up for certain areas. Damaging winds, fallen trees and powerlines, a risk of severe weather with a tornado risk, and flooding will accompany the system. This strong of a surface low has not been seen in over 20 years.
Before we get into this article '... Lucifer was chosen on a vote from viewers on the Southern California Weather Force Facebook Page. I had no idea what kind of storm would fall on the ''L'' name but did predict because of the name it would be the worst one of the season '... It's also in the FB page itself. The people choose the names '... I do not '...
The storm is hitting with some rainfall out ahead of the main front from Ventura County, north to Kern '... west to SLO/SBA County today, which will spread eastward for a run at LA by the early morning hours. This was predicted in the previous article, Click Here.
As for tonight '... do feel that the calming wind ahead of the system for the LA/OC Coast/Basin areas , south to the San Diego Coast and Valley along I-15 Escondido will be prime for dense fog so if you are going to travel '... take note on this fog as it will be very dense.
This is not even the main frontal zone so as it is raining on Thursday in these areas, don't think this is the bulk of the system.
That becomes realized on Friday when the front slams the area. Given this, the main front hits areas west of Los Angeles on Friday during the day/evening '... with Los Angeles south and eastward getting hit during the early night hours before midnight. Widespread 2-4'" of rain looks likely in all metro areas '...
Adding another section to this, such as thunderstorms and tornadic chances. The system will have a unidirectional shear profile in the mid-levels, which means the winds are along the front and thus the isolated supercell potential along the main front with the damaging winds will not be there and thus a broken snake-like looking squall-line will happen '... with isolated tornado potential. After the front through Friday night to Saturday morning however is another story.
This is when the low level flow remains the same in the VT/LA/OC areas and if storms do form behind the main front '... enough low level shear will be available for tornado risks to elevate in that small area '... but a lot of population exists so it will be monitored carefully '...
This is the reason this storm has been upgraded to a Category Five '... PENDING a six '...
The wind with the system will be very strong in all areas for the most part. Wind out of the Southeast will cause gusty winds to even hit Bakersfield, as they roar out of the Gorman Pass. This is due to the storm having a stronger surface low west of the area at the time, which causes the wind to move toward the center of the lowest pressure. Wind gusts could easily each 30-50 mph in the Kern regions on Friday.
Kern is not the only area that will see strong wind gusts. All the areas along the coast and inland to the mountains will see those gusts with the front on Friday. There may even be damaging winds in the Orange/San Diego County areas as a result of a stronger low level jet moving over. The south flow will also generate strong gusts in the nominal windy areas of the High Desert and Antelope Valley areas.
Unlike usual storms that bring stronger west winds across the area, this system will have southerly winds as stated above and this would bring the wind concern down for Imperial County '... which should get less wind and more rain.
SCWF Calculated Wind Gusts Friday / Friday Night (MPH)
San Luis Obispo '' 55Vandenberg AFB '' 56Bakersfield '' 53Ventura '' 41Pine Mountain Club '' 75Los Angeles '' 45Anaheim '' 50Riverside '' 50San Diego '' 50Hesperia '' 50Barstow '' 40Lancaster '' 45Tehachapi '' 60Palm Springs '' 30Brawley '' 30Big Bear Lake '' 75
This has strong low level shear dynamics, however the main frontal zone does not have much in the way of thunderstorms showing up in my numbers. However, because of the low level shear, some cells within the front could spin-up waterspouts, some strong, and could even produce isolated tornadoes along the coast and somewhat inland. This is mainly for Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego County. Without lightning, this would probably be a Squall-line Watch alert issuance product on Friday.
Waves on Friday will be 10-12 Feet in all areas '... coastal damage is expected in spots, lasting into Saturday .. .and calming more on Sunday. Swells will be up again by the middle part of this next week with additional storms moving into California.
Snow with this will be starting in Big Bear as early as Friday morning. Even though it'll be above freezing, low level moisture content being dry means the flakes will reach the ground. Snow level goes up during the evening and with the front '... over 8,000 FT so turning to rain '... before dropping back to 6,000 '' 6500 Ft. overnight Friday into Saturday morning. Exact amount is not quite known, but a dusting possible for Big Bear Lake on Friday morning '... and additional alerts will be issued to you as the system is further analyzed.
Rainfall forecast is as followed in the map below '...
San Luis Obispo '' 3.1'"Vandenberg AFB '' 3.1'"Bakersfield '' 1.3'"Ventura '' 2.8 with Ojai at 4.5'"Pine Mountain Club '' 3.0'"Los Angeles '' 2.6'" Downtown with 3.5'" SCVAnaheim '' 2.7'"Riverside '' 1.7'"San Diego '' 2.3'"Hesperia '' 2.0'"Barstow '' 1.2'"Lancaster '' 3'"Tehachapi '' 3.0'"Palm Springs '' 1.1'"Brawley '' 0.5'"Big Bear Lake '' 1.7'"
Source SouthernCaliforniaWeatherForce.com
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VIDEO-Vice-President Mike Pence Munich Security Conference Speech'...
Vice-President Mike Pence traveled to Munich on behalf of the President Trump administration to deliver a speech at the security conference.
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There is a transparently troubling issue with VP Pence following his involvement in the loss of General Michael Flynn.
Former Governor Mike Pence was selected for VP because he represented a bridge between the grassroots Trump movement and the GOPe Republicans.
Those who are professionally republican, and those who are crony constitutionalists within the CPAC crowd leadership are both big government. This GOPe group, along with the NeverTrump movement is the foundation of the Pence coalition. These are NOT President Donald Trump supporters.
In the past 10 days the tentacles of the GOPe have reached out to pull Pence back into the familiar fold. Unfortunately Vice-President Pence has willingly embraced the traditional GOPe elements the Trump movement has long rebuked. As such his loyalty to the administration's objectives is now in question.
If an intervention does not take place within 10 days, before March 1st, the division will be too great to close. If Pence does not reinvest himself in the Trump administration and rethink his loyalties, history teaches us what comes next '' and it would be in the best interests of Ivanka, Don Jr. and/or Eric to intercede quickly.
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VIDEO - Lawmakers probe US funding for Soros groups, left-wing causes in Europe | Fox News
George Soros' alleged meddling in European politics has caught the attention of Congress.
Concerns about Soros' involvement most recently were raised by the Hungarian prime minister, who last week lashed out at the Soros "empire" and accused it of deploying "tons of money and international heavy artillery."
But days earlier, Republican lawmakers in Washington started asking questions about whether U.S. tax dollars also were being used to fund Soros projects in the small, conservative-led country of Macedonia.
Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., led a group of House lawmakers in writing to Ambassador Jess Baily -- an Obama appointee -- demanding answers. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, also expressed concerns about USAID money going to Soros' Open Society Foundations as part of a broader concern that the U.S. Embassy has been taking sides in party politics.
''I have received credible reports that, over the past few years, the US Mission to Macedonia has actively intervened in the party politics of Macedonia, as well as the shaping of its media environment and civil society, often favoring groups of one political persuasion over another,'' Lee said in his letter.
Together, the concerns reflect growing conservative pushback against Soros' operations in Europe.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban last week ripped the Hungary-born billionaire's "trans-border empire." Orban has been one of the central European voices speaking out against the push by E.U. leaders to absorb Syrian refugees and has been criticized for his hardline stance.
Soros' Open Society Foundations -- one of the billionaire's biggest groups operating across the globe -- fired back, saying Orban was trying to deflect attention from other issues.
''The Open Society Foundations for over 30 years have supported civil society groups in Hungary who are addressing profound problems in education, health care, media freedom and corruption," Laura Silber, the organization's chief communications officer, said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Any attacks on this work and those groups are solely an attempt to deflect attention from government inability to address these issues."
The group's stated goal is ''to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens'' but critics claim it's a front for Soros' hard-left political maneuverings.
Former Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski says Soros has a "decisive influence" on his country's politics.
''If it were not for George Soros behind it with all the millions he pours into Macedonia, the entire network of NGOs, media, politicians, inside and out ... the economy would be stronger, we would have had more new jobs,'' he said in a recent interview with Macedonia's Republika newspaper.
Macedonia, while small, is a broadly conservative country. It has a flat rate tax of 10 percent, a small-government philosophy and a ruling conservative party (VMRO-DPMNE) that has greeted the election of President Trump warmly and pledged to work with him.
Lee's staff recently met with Macedonia lawmakers, who also passed on a white paper from a citizen's initiative called ''Stop Operation Soros'' which alleges U.S. money has been funding hard-left causes in the country -- including violent riots in the streets, as well as a Macedonian version of Saul Alinsky's far-left handbook ''Rules for Radicals.''
In an extensive 40-page dossier, the group alleges USAID money is being used to fund activists and exclusively left-wing media groups as a way to sway the country's politics.
The Open Society Foundations did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
On the Soros connection, Lee's letter asked if the Mission has ''selected the Open Society Foundations as the major implementer of USAID projects in Macedonia'' and if the group has been perceived to have political bias in Macedonia.
In a reply dated Feb. 9, the State Department told Lee that the Mission in the country has worked to advance U.S. interests ''in a non-biased, non-partisan, objective and transparent manner.'' The letter claimed U.S. government assistance has not funded partisan political activities in Macedonia, but noted that from 2002 to the present, USAID had provided three grants to Foundation Open Society '' Macedonia (FOSM).
One of these grants is outlined on the USAID website. Between 2012 and 2016, USAID gave almost $5 million in taxpayer cash to FOSM for ''The Civil Society Project,'' which ''aims to empower Macedonian citizens to hold government accountable.'' USAID's website links to www.soros.org.mk, and says the project trained hundreds of young Macedonians ''in youth activism and the use of new media instruments.''
The letter from the State Department to Lee said USAID also recently funded a new Civic Engagement Project which partners with four organizations, including FOSM. It was not clear how much this project would cost, but Smith put the figure at $9.5 million.
''The money is very significant, in fact there is still money in the pipeline, from 2017 to 2021, 9.5 million,'' Smith said in a recent radio interview with the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins. ''It's one thing to do election monitoring, which is a very noble cause to make sure there's free and fair elections, but it's quite another thing to be backing parties that Soros and his gang want to see in control of that country.''
It isn't the only time Soros has worked with the State Department. Among the emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released by Wikileaks was one from 2011 in which Soros urged Hillary Clinton to take action in Albania over recent demonstrations in the capital of Tirana.
Soros asked Clinton to ''bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama to forestall further public demonstrations and to tone down public pronouncements'' and appoint a senior European official as mediator.
Within a few days, an envoy was dutifully dispatched.
Former Macedonian PM Gruevski cited the WikiLeaks emails as proof ''[Soros] can go visit top leading American officials whenever he wants to, arranges meetings day in day out and has significant influence.''
While Soros has often been a bogeyman for the American right, the liberal businessman has kept a steady pressure and funding of left-wing causes within America as well.
''This guy is a spider with lots of webs,'' GOP strategist Brad Blakeman told Fox News' "Strategy Room." ''He controls numerous third-party groups, where he uses his influence. We've seen it internally with Black Lives Matter, the demonstrations taken place after the inaugural -- this is what he does.''
After violent left-wing activists rioted at Berkeley in protest of a lecture by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, The Daily Caller reported that the main group behind the protests -- Refuse Facism -- was backed by The Alliance for Global Justice -- which in turn is backed by The Tides Foundation, a Soros-funded group.
Soros also has donated to Media Matters and has been a major financial contributor to the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank founded by Podesta.
Adam Shaw is a Politics Reporter and occasional Opinion writer for FoxNews.com. He can be reached here or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.
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It's hard to imagine that anything literally hanging from utility poles across Manhattan could be considered "hidden," but throughout the borough, about 18 miles of translucent wire stretches around the skyline, and most people have likely never noticed. It's called an eruv (plural eruvin), and its existence is thanks to the Jewish Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, which is viewed as a day of rest, observant Jewish people aren't allowed to carry anything'¬''books, groceries, even children'¬''in public places (doing so is considered "work"). The eruv encircles much of Manhattan, acting as a symbolic boundary that turns the very public streets of the city into a private space, much like one's own home. This allows people to freely communicate and socialize on the Sabbath'¬''and carry whatever they please'¬''without having to worry about breaking Jewish law.
Along with everything else in New York City, the eruv isn't cheap. It costs a group of Orthodox synagogues $100,000 a year to maintain the wires, which are inspected by a rabbi every Thursday before dawn to confirm they are all still attached. While wires do occasionally fall, the overall eruv has survived events such as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Hurricane Sandy. When eruv wires do break, it can cause enough of a stir to make news. Most notably, in 2011 a wire broke near the United Nations building, which caused a problem when repair crews couldn't get past security to fix it. The issue was eventually resolved, but not before a good deal of panic set in.
Manhattan has had an eruv in one form or another since the early 20th century, but the present-day incarnation began on the Upper West Side in 1994. It has since expanded from 126th Street to Houston Street, and its exact locations can now be viewed on Google Maps (and an intermittently updated Twitter feed). The city does have some rules in place regarding the eruv: The wires can only be a quarter-inch thick, and they must be hung at least 15 feet off the ground.
New York City isn't the only metropolis in the U.S. with an eruv. They can also be seen (or not seen) in St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, and numerous other cities across the country. Rabbi Adam Mintz, co-president of the Manhattan eruv, talks more about it in the video below, courtesy of Business Insider:
VIDEO - Whoopi Goldberg Defends Tiffany Trump After NYFW Snub
Whoopi Goldberg is taking a stand at New York Fashion Week.
At the Phillip Plein show on Monday, Tiffany Trump was left sitting alone after several magazine editors moved so they wouldn't have to be near President Donald Trump's daughter. Some even tweeted that they had changed seats, with former Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley posting photos of the 23-year-old with empty seats beside her.
Nikki Ogunnaike, senior fashion editor at Elle, tweeted that the show started late due to chaotic seating changes, with editors at the show ''fleeing'' so they wouldn't have to sit around Tiffany. In response to a similar tweet from Alyssa Vingan Klein, editor-in-chief of Fashionista.com, Ogunnaike said she was with others down the hall.
The snub became the subject of conversation on Wednesday's episode of The View, where Goldberg defended the University of Pennsylvania graduate and offered to sit next to her at future shows.
''You know what, Tiffany, I'm supposed to go to a couple more shows. I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm coming to sit with you,'' the outspoken actress, 61, said. ''Because nobody's talking politics. You're looking at fashion! She doesn't want to talk about her dad! She's looking at the fashion!''
Tiffany took to Twitter and accepted Goldberg's offer on Wednesday.
''Thank you @WhoopiGoldberg I'd love to sit with you too!'' she wrote, adding a smiling face emoji.
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Goldberg, who has been a vocal opponent of the new president, noted there was a difference between the movement of boycotting Ivanka Trump's clothing line and the cold shoulder given to Tiffany.
''And people say what is the difference between people boycotting Ivanka. There is a difference,'' she said on The View. ''That's all about buying stuff. You're buying stuff. This girl is looking at fashion, and she's just looking at fashion. I just thought it was mean.''
The fashion designer behind the show also spoke out in Tiffany's defense.
''Tiffany Trump is not a politician, she's a teenager,'' Plein told TMZ.
Robin Marchant/GettyOn Tuesday, Tiffany was spotted at the Dennis Basso show sitting in the front row alongside her friend, designer Andrew Warren. She was also seated next to a woman to whom she was seen talking throughout the event.
Gustavo Caballero/GettyWarren was also the first daughter's date at the Vivienne Tam show on Wednesday. Tiffany sat front row between the fashion designer and Reya Benitez, the daughter of DJ legend John ''Jellybean'' Benitez.
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VIDEO - Zuckerberg: my Facebook manifesto to re-boot globalisation - BBC News
Image copyrightAFPMark Zuckerberg has revealed deep-seated concerns that the tide is turning against globalisation.
In an interview with the BBC, the Facebook founder said that fake news, polarised views and "filter bubbles" were damaging "common understanding".
He said people had been left behind by global growth, sparking demands to "withdraw" from the "connected world".
In a call to action, he said people must not "sit around and be upset", but act to build "social infrastructures".
"When I started Facebook, the mission of connecting the world was not controversial," he told me.
"It was as if it was a default assumption that people had; every year the world got more connected and that seems like the direction things were heading in.
"Now that vision is becoming more controversial."
Losing hopeHe told the BBC: "There are people around the world that feel left behind by globalisation and the rapid changes that have happened, and there are movements as a result to withdraw from some of that global connection."
Image copyrightAFP/GettyImage caption Anti-globalisation protests, such as this one in the Philippines, have broken out across the world. Mr Zuckerberg's interview comes alongside the publication of a 5,500-word letter he has written about the future of Facebook and the global economy.
In it Mr Zuckerberg quotes Abraham Lincoln who spoke of acting "in concert", and talks about "spiritual needs", civic engagement and says that many people have "lost hope for the future".
"For a couple of decades, may be longer, people have really sold this idea that as the world comes together everything is going to get better," he said.
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"I think the reality is that over the long term that will be true, and there are pieces of infrastructure that we can build to make sure that a global community works for everyone.
"But I do think there are some ways in which this idea of globalisation didn't take into account some of the challenges it was going to create for people, and now I think some of what you see is a reaction to that.
"If people are asking the question, is the direction for humanity to come together more or not? I think that answer is clearly yes.
"But we have to make sure the global community works for everyone. It is not just automatically going to happen.
"All these different kinds of institutions, whether they are governments, or non-profits, or companies, need to do their part in building this infrastructure to empower people so that it creates opportunities for everyone, not just some people.
"If you are upset about the direction things are going in, I hope you don't just sit around and be upset, but you feel urgent about building the long term infrastructure that needs to get built," Mr Zuckerberg said.
Global challengesI asked him whether he felt President Trump agreed with his view that "bringing people together" and "connecting the world" would lead to greater progress.
Mr Zuckerberg did not, famously, attend the round-table of technology leaders hosted by the new president.
"I don't think I am going to speak to that directly," he answered carefully. "You can talk to him, you can look at what he has said to get a sense of that.
"The thing that I will say is that a lot of folks will look at this through the lens of one or two events, and I really do think this is a broader trend.
"I have been talking about this for a long time, since before recent elections both across Europe and Asia and the US.
"A lot of today's biggest opportunities will come from bringing people together - whether that is spreading prosperity or freedom, or accelerating science, or promoting peace and understanding."
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The charitable foundation set up by Mr Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan is giving billions of dollars to charity. Mr Zuckerberg said: "A lot of challenges we face today are also entirely global - fighting climate change or ending terrorism, or ending pandemics, or when a civil war in one country leads to a refugee crisis across different continents.
"These are inherently global things and require a different level of infrastructure than we've had historically."
Political ambitions?Would you like to meet President Trump? I asked.
"I would like that not be the focus of this. I don't really have much comment on that. It somewhat detracts from the focus of what we are trying to do here."
There has been speculation that Mr Zuckerberg could be contemplating a political career, and even suggestions that he will run for US president in 2020 - rumours he has flatly denied.
I said the political tone of the manifesto would do little to dampen speculation about where he sees himself longer term.
Could he imagine himself going into politics? "I am not doing that now, it's not the plan," he said. "The thing I really care about is connecting the world."
Facebook has been attacked for not doing enough to tackle "fake news" - untrue stories which claimed, for example, that the Pope backed Mr Trump - which have appeared prominently on its news feeds.
In Germany, there has been controversy after a Green MP was quoted in a Facebook post defending an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who had raped and murdered a German student.
The MP, Renate Kuenast, had never said what was attributed to her by a right-wing extremist organisation.
Ms Kuenast said she found it hard to accept that "Zuckerberg earns billions, shows off with all his charitable donations, and at the same time allows Facebook to become a tool of extremists".
Mr Zuckerberg said he understood the importance of tackling fake news.
Freedom of opinion"Accuracy of information is very important," he said in the 5,500-word letter, published on Thursday. "We know there is misinformation and even outright hoax content on Facebook.
"We've made progress fighting hoaxes the way we fight spam, but we have more work to do.
"We are proceeding carefully because there is not always a clear line between hoaxes, satire and opinion."
But Mr Zuckerberg added: "In a free society, it's important that people have the power to share their opinion, even if others think they're wrong.
"Our approach will focus less on banning misinformation, and more on surfacing additional perspectives and information, including that fact checkers dispute an item's accuracy."
Image copyrightGetty ImagesHe told me that "polarisation and sensationalism" also undermined "common understanding".
And he admitted that social media - which deals in short, often aggressive, messages - had been part of the problem.
"In some places [it] could over simplify important and complex topics and may push us to have over simplified opinions of them," Mr Zuckerberg said.
"And I think it is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the negative ones so we can create a community that has a common understanding
"There is a lot of research that shows we have the best discourse when we connect as whole people rather than just opinions.
"If I get to know you on the values that we have in common or even the interests that we share it is a lot easier to have a debate about something that we disagree about productively than if we just meet and go head to head on something without understanding our common humanity."
'Setting an example'Some may argue there is a question of legitimacy here, that no one voted for Mark Zuckerberg and question his right to outline - and attempt to execute - a vision of the world.
And what about those controversies over taxes paid, or privacy, or vast profits in an age when inequality is as much a factor behind the present dim view of many in the political and business establishment as any perceived failures of globalisation.
"There are a lot of areas that I know we need to improve and I appreciate the criticism and feedback and hope we can continue to do better on them," Mr Zuckerberg said, pointing out that he is donating 99% of his Facebook shares - worth £36bn ($45bn) - to the charitable foundation he runs with his wife, Priscilla Chan.
"Being a good corporate citizen is really important," he said. "We operate in a lot of different countries all around the world.
"We need to be help build those communities and that is what I am trying to do in my personal philanthropy - setting an example hopefully for other entrepreneurs who will build things in the future for how you should give back to the community and to the world.
"I care deeply about all of this, and it is a work in progress."
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